I wouldn't exactly call it "simple" - the Java Virtual Machine has
evolved over
the span of almost 20 years into a complex and optimised beast.
Couldn't imagine the world without it :-)
On 26 Jul 2010, at 8:29 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I was just thinking about what I wrote about Java and it's not quite
> correct. Java actually implements a very simple virtual machine (at
> the
> register level) on top of the real machine its running on.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Not exactly. Java is a programming language and a fairly low level
>> one
>> at that. Its native code is compiled into object code for the
>> platform
>> its running on. Air does somewhat the same thing except that it
>> operates at a higher functional level and it can also incorporate
>> HTML
>> and other Adobe development tools. Parts of an Air application
>> could,
>> for example, be built using Flash but it doesn't need to be. The
>> thing
>> that you have to download is the Air runtime modules. These are
>> different between Windows and Mac and take care of the cross-platform
>> translation.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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